Monday, September 15, 2008

Word and Research Papers

The more technology advances, the more I wonder – Where was this when I could have used it?

Besides all the wonderful features of word processing we take for granted, Word 2007 has raised the bar by adding a citation and bibliography category.

No more fighting stylistic syntax. No longer do you have to remember the which parts are italicized, where the commas go and what is bolded and do I have to have the ISBN number? Word will take care of that for you. Select your source type, the style (MLA, APA, etc.) and Word will pop a box and let you fill in the blanks.

Need to enter the citation, hit a button and the citation is entered, logged and uses the proper syntax.

Creating a bibliography is just as easy – hit the button and there it is.

Since the information is stored in a master list, so you can reuse your research and switch from MLA to APA with the click of a mouse.

Almost makes me want to go back to school. - Almost

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